Why are they scared of DDCA probe: Arvind Kejriwal on reports of LG rejecting commission of enquiry

Delhi chief minister, Arvind Kejriwal, has hit back at the Lieutenant Governor, Najeeb Jung for ‘leaking’ the letter to the media.

Speaking to reporters at an event to launch a government calendar, Kejriwal asked why Jung was ‘so scared of the enquiry.’

“What’s there to be so scared of. We are not scared of CBI, EDI or DRI, then why are they scared of an enquiry? It seems puri ki puri daal kaali hai. Lg sahab transport ghotale mein buri tarah phans rahe hain,” Kejriwal was quoted as saying.

Earlier today it had emerged that Jung had reportedly rejected the probe ordered by the Delhi government in the DDCA corruption.

According to media reports, Jung had, in a communication to the home ministry on Wednesday evening, said that the Commission of Inquiry Act, 1952 empowered only the Centre and state governments to appoint a commission of inquiry.

Since Delhi was a Union Territory and short of full statehood, a commission of inquiry ought to have been ordered in ‘concurrence of the Centre, through the LG.’

An embarrassed BJP had suspended Azad after repeated efforts by the party leadership failed to stop him from going ahead with the expose against Jaitley, who’s considered to be the most powerful leader in the central government after Modi.

The LG reports to central government through the MHA, which is headed by Rajnath Singh. Aam Aadmy Party, which had won 67 out of 70 seats in Delhi earlier this year has always accused LG of working at the behest of PMO to disrupt governance in the capital.

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